Bloggers have it easy today. Most anyone can decide to start a blog and go right on over to WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, or to any of the other blogging platform, and get it up and running within the hour, if that. When I first started blogging–before it was called “blogging” and the people who participated in the community were treated nothing like bloggers are today–I had to first learn everything that made up a website. I had to learn how to code and then how to get the files I created onto my website. There was no clicking a button on the blogger dashboard to upload a file and have them automatically upload and embed in a post. In fact, I hand-coded every single post that I published on my website, and in the very beginning of my blogging journey, we didn’t even have commenting systems that installed and started working exactly how they were supposed to all on their own.
This wasn’t all that long ago; it was only the early 2000s, so it’s pretty interesting to see how fast code–the entire backbone of every website in existence–has evolved so much, so quickly through only the last 12 years. When you start to look back at the tech industry and when programming was making its first breakthrough in 1954, you really begin to appreciate what we have all taken for granted within in our everyday internet worlds.
Check out the following infographic to learn about the evolution of programming–where it all began, how fast programmers perfected code in order to move technological innovation forward, and how what was once reserved for only the most experienced programmers is now an entire community open to anyone with the interest and determination to learn.
![The Evolution of Programming [Infographic]](http://wikibon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/evolution-of-programming.png)
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reminds me so much of our computer subject when i was in High school 🙂
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This is so neat! Thanks for sharing 🙂
great info thanks for sharing!
Growing up I had a ton of computer geek friends… and have known a lot of the computer lingo, but it’s nice to see a visual picture of everything. =) I’ll be sure to share.
I used to be on livejournal many moons ago. I remember having to upload everything too. I’m glad that so much has changed now. Those like me that do not completely understand pc lingo, it has become so much more user friendly!
I had a LiveJournal many years ago as well. Before then, I also had something very much like LiveJournal called Teen Open Diary, then I was on Angelfire, Geocities… Just typing those last two names made me fall in love with WordPress all over again.
I’m all for user friendly – though I honestly wish I was more savvy in “computer-ese”. I’m still working on it 🙂
What no PHP? Ruby gets put on the list though, bah.
there’s a nes but where’s assembly code
Wow, C anything just gets harder and harder
Why wasnt Basic included? It gets easier and easier.
Basic was mentioned invented back in 1964 unless you were referring to “Visual Basic” the Microsoft feeble abortion of a programming language. I was finally glad when .NET took its place not that I give much credence to any sort of Microsoft centric “programming language”.
Come on, no Objective-C – the language used to program the iPhone/iPad and Mac?
I also agree with omitting Basic being pretty wrong.
I guess the graphic artists felt they had to omit several languages to include pictures of many devices which were not macs or iPhones or iPads….
If you were interested in this list, you may like a way more complete version that also offers descriptions of why various languages exist:
http://www.georgehernandez.com/h/xComputers/Programming/Media/tongues-cleaner.png
I don’t know where my comment went but but, vb6 is not a feeble attempt. Its vastly wasier to learn/read and faster to code in than c style. You should see how many ppl buy basic4android just to avoid the horrors of java. C needs to die.
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Starting in 1954? FORTRAN? Really? Really?
Ida Lovelace is turning over in her grave!
I was curious how that slipped by! FORTRAN 77 was not the inception of computing languages as of 1954, and
PROGRAM HELLOWlooks yucky. Most of the dates look too early to me e.g. C in 1969, but I’m not 100% certain.Based on this infographic, one would think that hardly anything at all happened since the year 2000. Some might claim that not much of enduring value, nor originality has occurred in computer language design during the past decade. Yet there has been a lot of activity, which isn’t captured by this chart.
All miscellaneous complaining aside… thank you! I enjoyed it. More posts of this sort, please, on womantribune dot com! I would really like that 😉
Great insight on the “blogging world.” I enjoyed reading this, along with the visual layout. Very nice.
Based on this infographic, one would think that hardly anything at all happened since the year 2000. Some might claim that not much of enduring value, nor originality has occurred in computer language design during the past decade. Yet there has been a lot of activity, which isn’t captured by this chart.